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Study Plan (Current Affairs)

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CURRENT AFFAIRS – STUDY PLAN

1) Nuclear Program of Pakistan


i) Safety, Security and International Concerns
ii) Nuclear Proliferation and Nuclear Security
iii) Nuclear Politics in South Asia

2) Traditional and Non-Traditional Security Threats in Pakistan


i) International Security
ii) Changing Security Dynamics for Pakistan: Challenges to National Security
iii) Pakistan’s National Interest
iv) Challenges to Sovereignty
v) Role of Non-State Actors
vi) Proxy Wars: Role of External Elements

3) Palestine Issue

4) Kashmir Issue

5) Regional Economic Cooperation and the Role of Pakistan


i) SAARC, ECO, SCO

6) Pakistan and Changing Regional Apparatus


i) Pakistan’s role in the region
ii) Pakistan’s relations with India since 1947
iii) Pakistan’s relations with neighbors excluding India
iv) Pakistan and US War on Terror
v) Foreign Policy of Pakistan Post-9/11
vi) The War in Afghanistan Since 1979 and its Impact on, and Challenges to Pakistan, in
the Post-2014 Era

7) Hydro-Politics – Water Issues in Domestic and Regional Context


UNCOVERED
1) Pakistan’s Domestic Affairs – political, economic and social (20 marks)
2) Pakistan’s External Affairs (40 marks)
i) Relations with Neighbors (India, China, Afghanistan, Russia)
ii) Relations with the Muslim world (Iran, Saudi Arabia, Indonesia, Turkey)
iii) Relations with the U.S.
iv) Relations with regional & intl. orgs (UN, SAARC, ECO, OIC, WTO, CW)
3) Global Issues (40 marks)
i) International Political Economy
ii) Human Rights
iii) Environment: Global Warming, Kyoto Protocol, Copenhagen Accord
iv) Population: world population trends, world population policies
v) Global Energy Politics
vi) International Trade (Doha Development Round and Bali Package)
vii) Cooperation and Competition in Arabian Sea, Indian and Pacific Oceans
viii) Millennium Development Goals – Current Status
ix) Globalization
x) Middle East

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